The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-16
Notes.


The bishop Of Leon, Mexico. has ordered the
clergy to wear citizens and not ecclesiastical
dress.
The pious man And atheist always talk of re-
ligion The one speaks of what he loves. the
other what he fears. -MontesQuieu.
Many a man thinks admirably who has poor
utterance while others have a charming manner
OF speech but their thoughts are trifing.
Congregation alism is growingin Pennsylvania
It has now ninety five churches in that State
and has made net gain of so per cent. in mem
bership since 1880.
A happiness that is quite undisturbed becomes
tiresome. We must have ups and downs The
difficulties which mingled with love awaken
passion and increase pleasure.
The Rev. Myron Reed says, in explanation of
the story OF Joshua and the suns that when a
man gets into fight he is likely to think that it
is a very long day before it ia ended"
Pope Pontiff, King" ia the wav the Western
Watchman puts 1t in describing the Pope's iubi-
lee. And the speaker of the day. a ST. Louis
judge. advocated the temporal power OF the
Pops.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's ten ptaticn
and do not weaken and distract yourself 81 looK-
ing forward to things which you not seq aud
could not understand if you them.-Charles
Kingsley.
Lady Henry Somerset has created consider
able sensation in WORCESTERSHIRE England, with
her gospel tent and peripatetic preaching. Her
temperance orations said to have placed her
in the front rank of lady speakers.
The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks told the Young
men of the Boston Christian Association the
other night that every man ought to have an
Rvocation as well as a vocaton-a special study
which he should follow in his leisure hours
something in which he delighted, and which
would be to him distinct we'll of refreshment,
cool retreat for the regeneration of his DOW
ers."
Judge Thompson, of the Massachusetts, Su-
preme Court. who has been In Springfield this
week remarked of the theological discussion
gong on there: Looking at the question from a
judicial stand point, as am accustomed to look
at these things, it seems to of very little i'm
portance what verdict may be rendered at the
meetings OF the American board, for no assur-
ance can be given that the verdict will stand;
and, let IL be what it will, there will certainly be
motion for a new trial"
Presbyterian Observer: We have always
felt that prayer should be largely exempt from
criticism. And we feel so still. Yet now and
then we hear something in public prayer so
grotesque and out of place that the CRITICAL
faculty will assert itself. And it may fairly be
said that those who their voices lead the
devotions of others ought to try very hard to
nse them acceptably. And the prime essential
seems to Us to be simplicity If grand eloquence
ever has a place, which we doubt it is not in
prayer. 1T rhetoric is ever q snare. 1t is here.
There two kinds of sermons that like"
Rwell-known Maine statesman once remarked
to the writer. ''One is a sermon that doesn't
bother me at all. under which I can sit and
frame speech or map out nv weeks work, and
the other is n sermon which takes complete pos
session of me and holds me from beginning to
end" most felicitous characterization of two
well defined types of sermons As ir takes more
of a man TO be average man now than was
required to make giant fftv years ago. so it
takes more of q sermon to hold the atten ton of
the speech-making statesman than it took once.
Lewiston Journal
Not long ago the writer asked a class of small
boys IN Sunday school what their idea of
heaven Ii was curious to note how their replies
were influenced by their circumstances in life
A ragged little urchiu. who had been born and
brought up a squalid city street. said 1t was
'all grass and green trees" one from the richer
quarter of Boston said it was like a big, broad
avenue with tall houses each side. A sweet
voiced Episcopal choirboy of the opinion
that people would sing good deal in heaven.
full boy. though one of the smallest in the class
answered. "A place where-where-youre
never sorry!"-Our Sunday Afternoon.
A late secretary OF the Wesleyan Sunday
school board OF England tells Of the first time
he heard DR.. Parker preach in the City Temple
In London.
II was eagerly looking out for something out
or the common way. and was not disappointed.
just before he began his sermon he made the ex-
traordinary announcement that the congrega-
tion were to sing a particular hymn at the end
of the sermon without his having to rise aud
give IL out saw at once that he intended some
TFoat coup In this peroration. The subject
khe Scarlet Woman Of Babylon As he peared
she end of his sermon he grew m ore and more
excited, and finally ended with: Yes nv friends.
kAbylon, the mighty has fallen-has fallen
has faleD-has fallenv
FAT each has fallen he took one step nearer
his lounge and finally sank exhausted at the
last word was uttered.
The poetry of DIR. Parkers fall would have
been destroyed had ne arisen to give out tho
hymn"
A Chinaman applied for the position of cook
In "A family in one of our Western cities The
lady of the house ana most of the family were
members of a fashionable church, and they were
determined to look well after the character Of